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| -rw-r--r-- | youtube_dl/compat.py | 8 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/youtube_dl/compat.py b/youtube_dl/compat.py index a3e85264a..4e3de7f51 100644 --- a/youtube_dl/compat.py +++ b/youtube_dl/compat.py @@ -198,6 +198,14 @@ except ImportError: # Python < 3.4 return compat_urllib_response.addinfourl(io.BytesIO(data), headers, url) + +# Prepend protocol-less URLs with `http:` scheme in order to mitigate the number of +# unwanted failures due to missing protocol +def compat_urllib_request_Request(url, *args, **kwargs): + return compat_urllib_request.Request( + 'http:%s' % url if url.startswith('//') else url, *args, **kwargs) + + try: compat_basestring = basestring # Python 2 except NameError: |